Office Solutions for Coffee
Home and Small Office Brewer Bundle
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A perfect brewing package for the home or small office!

Includes all of the Following:

Technivorm Brewer - Your choice of either the Glass (# 9557 KB741) or Thermal Model (# 9587 KB741T)
Baratza Virtuoso Burr Grinder
Salter Scale
1 Box Filtropa #4 Filters
And the Following 2 Coffees:
Matalapa, El Salvador (Vienna Roast)
El Injerto, Guatemala (Full Flavor Roast)

All for $399.00!
A savings of over $80 off of our standard discount prices!
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Fair Trade & Organic
Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia




The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

This coffee is refined and delicate. Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger give Yirgacheffe a unique flavor profile. This particular lot was the best we cupped last year and we made history by have it vacuum sealed and boxed in Ethiopia. The coffee has arrived at our facilities with its special perfume intact and without woodiness, something we have not enjoyed for several years! This Konga, taken black with no milk or sweetener, pairs ecstatically with dark chocolate. Much better than, um...dunking donuts...Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Harvest: 2006
Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica


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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya


What a thrill to once again have a great lot from this cooperative mill after so many years! I first had coffee from Kangocho during my Coffee Connection days in the early 1990's, when I grasped what greatness Kenya coffees were capable of. Even better, we have obtained an exceptional lot, superior, in my opinion, to even our current Karogoto, which received 96 points from Coffee Review.

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors. If you are not fully satisfied with this coffee we will be happy to issue you full credit for any other purchase.

Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Cup of Excellence
El Descanso, Huila, Colombia
We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during last year's Cup of Excellence auctions. We now have a larger lot of this coffee due to arrive here in Early November.

Jesus Orlando Lopez merged his brother's farm and now owns 8 hectares (20 acres) of farmland at over 5,600 feet. He has been reforesting his land and has applied for the Rainforest certification.

Ripe, elegant and velvety, the cup is medium-bodied, suggesting honeyed citrus, plum, and pomegranate mingling with soft streaks of blackberry, aromatic, ripe pear, wintergreen, vanilla and rounded with chocolate truffle.

Farm: El Descanso
Farmer: Jesus Orlando Lopez
Region: Huila
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 5,600 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner
Roasting Monday, May 12th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Premiere - Bolivia Cup of Excellence 2007 Presidential Award winner (over 90 score), San Ignacio Farm, full flavor roast: Juana Mamami Huanca from the San Ignacio cooperative is a first generation coffee producer. She began producing coffee on her farm at the age of 16 and now at only 23 years of age she has earned second place in the Cup of Excellence in Bolivia. Juana participated in the 2005 competition but did not manage to take home a Cup of Excellence award. For the past two years she has worked to improve quality always with an eye towards competing again.

Her farm covers fifteen acres of lush hillsides in the Carrasco La Reserva region of the Caranavi province at an altitude of approximately 4,900 feet above sea-level. "I always planned to participate [in the competition]" she said, "and now I plan to increase my production and my quality of life." She is now working to establish an additional acre of coffee.

The farm has an abundance of shade trees. Production is carried out without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides but does not have organic certification.

- text from Cup of ExcellenceThe lack of certification is typical for very small farmers: it has been beyond her means. The price we paid should go a long way towards correcting that. Certification takes at least three years to get. The cup is medium bodied with black cherry, caramel and milk chocolate notes. The price is $34.95 per 8 ounces. Click here to order or call 866 GHH-JAVA.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


India
Iced Coffee Sets
Kenya
Karogoto, Nyeri, Kenya
Roasting Monday, May, 19th in our Full Flavor Roast! Last Roast of this fantastic crop!

For those seeking a full powered Kenya, our Karogoto, harvested in 2006 and beautifully preserved by our unique cool-temperature storage system, is it. It has that rare bold powerful blackberry-black currant flavor profile, so prized by Kenya coffee aficionados, that marks only a handful of lots from Kenya each year. It makes great, thirst-quenching berry fruit-laden iced coffee, by the way!

Karogoto is a small farmer cooperative processing center in the Nyeri region at 5,500 feet. This center is one of the best Kenya coffee producers, year after year. We carried it a few years ago and are happy to have it again. The average farm size is half an acre with the largest being only 2 acres. The average number of coffee trees per farm is 250 - each producing, at most, 1 pound of carefully hand-picked coffee per year.

Roast style: Full Flavor Roast
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Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya


What a thrill to once again have a great lot from this cooperative mill after so many years! I first had coffee from Kangocho during my Coffee Connection days in the early 1990's, when I grasped what greatness Kenya coffees were capable of. Even better, we have obtained an exceptional lot, superior, in my opinion, to even our current Karogoto, which received 96 points from Coffee Review.

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous mouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors. If you are not fully satisfied with this coffee we will be happy to issue you full credit for any other purchase.

Kangocho is a high altitude, small farmer cooperative coffee processing center in the Nyeri district.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Kigutha, Kiambu, Kenya


Kigutha Estate is a cooperative society of 25 members on 242 acres of farm in the district of Kiambu, just a few miles north of Nairobi. It is situated at 5,400 feet above sea level in the Kamiti Valley. This coffee's strong black-currant notes are particularly suited to a slightly darker full flavor roast, ideal for French Press coffeemakers. Makes a great dark-berry flavored iced coffee.

Roast Style: Dark Shade of Full Flavor Roast Spectrum
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Kahindu, Murang'a, Kenya
We are now roasting a fantastic coffee from the Kahindu Cooperative, a great coffee I last had the pleasure to offer back in the early 1990's when I had The Coffee Connection. Kahindu has 725 members, all small farmers. This small lot is of very fine quality with classic lively sweet dense blackberry and black currant notes throughout and a very clean finish.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast.

Farmer: Kahindu Cooperative
Region: Muranga
Altitude: 5,700 feet average
Rainfall: low = 43 in per year average
Soil: red volcanic loam
Processing method: washed and sun-dried
Arabica cultivar: 97% SL28 & 3% Ruiru 11
Size of farms: average under 4 acres
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Grand Cru Kenya: Mamuto, Kirinyaga
Just back from my most recent travels to Kenya, I am thrilled to report the Mamuto crop is in! We first introduced Mamuto last year in September. I believe it was the best lot auctioned in Kenya that year (all Kenyan coffee lots were auctioned through 2006; this year the system was "liberalized," permitting direct sales as well as auction coffee). Last November our Mamuto received Coffee Review's first-ever score over 95. We now have Mamuto's best lot from the most recent harvest, November-December of 2006. We purchased this lot directly and without hesitation; it was, again, the most outstanding lot we tried this past buying season and we have been privileged to always cup the cream of the crop!

Taking inspiration from their family, Mr. Mathagu explained to me, he and his wife named the farm by combining the first two letters from three words: his name, Mathagu, as the father; Muthoni, his wife's maiden name, as mother; and toto, meaning child or children in Swahili: thus Mamuto. Mr. and Mrs. Mathagu have six children - three boys, three girls.

Farmer: Walter Paul and Muthoni Mathagu


Region: Kirinyaga
Altitude: 5,000 ft.
Rainfall: Low to moderate+
Soil: Volcanic loam
Arabica variety: 95% Bourbon Sl 28 and SL 34, 5% Ruiru 11
Size of Farm: 21 acres total; 13 acres of coffee
Roast: Full Flavor

Please Note:
Terroir will return an additional $2 directly to the farmer, Walter Paul Mathagu, for every bag of Mamuto sold at $20.95.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.


Bolivia
San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner
Roasting Monday, May 12th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Premiere - Bolivia Cup of Excellence 2007 Presidential Award winner (over 90 score), San Ignacio Farm, full flavor roast: Juana Mamami Huanca from the San Ignacio cooperative is a first generation coffee producer. She began producing coffee on her farm at the age of 16 and now at only 23 years of age she has earned second place in the Cup of Excellence in Bolivia. Juana participated in the 2005 competition but did not manage to take home a Cup of Excellence award. For the past two years she has worked to improve quality always with an eye towards competing again.

Her farm covers fifteen acres of lush hillsides in the Carrasco La Reserva region of the Caranavi province at an altitude of approximately 4,900 feet above sea-level. "I always planned to participate [in the competition]" she said, "and now I plan to increase my production and my quality of life." She is now working to establish an additional acre of coffee.

The farm has an abundance of shade trees. Production is carried out without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides but does not have organic certification.

- text from Cup of ExcellenceThe lack of certification is typical for very small farmers: it has been beyond her means. The price we paid should go a long way towards correcting that. Certification takes at least three years to get. The cup is medium bodied with black cherry, caramel and milk chocolate notes. The price is $34.95 per 8 ounces. Click here to order or call 866 GHH-JAVA.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


Nicaragua
Honduras
El Salvador
Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
Matalapa is a fourth generation 190 acre farm at 4,100 feet above sea level. It was founded in the late 1800's by Fidelia Lima, great grandmother of the current owner, Vickie Ann Dalton de Díaz. She maintains 14 acres of virgin tropical forest and keeps her coffee plants shaded with over forty varieties of shades trees.

I have been following this farm for three years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2007 crop is very impressive for its sweetness and buttery body, ideal for espresso and French Press brewing.

100% Bourbon. Layers of refined deep sweet citrus with no edge coated with creamed nutty caramel.

Farm: Matalapa
Farmer: Vickie Ann Dalton de Diaz
Region: La Libertad
Altitude: 4,100 ft
Rainfall: 86 - 98 in. per year
Soil: Clay loam.
Varietal: 100% Bourbon
Vintage: 2007
Roast: Vienna

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Colombia
Vicente Cuaran's El Guaico, Narino, Colombia
Mr. Cuaran started coffee farming just seven years ago. He has 9,000 Catura coffee trees on five acres at 6,000 feet in elevation. He has done an excellent job with this lot. El Guaico exemplifies the special flavor characteristics of Narino coffee: Almond and a Ceylon tea core enveloped in notes of light tropical fruit meringue and just a trace of wintergreen. We have about a two month supply of this coffee.

Farm: El Guaico
Farmer: Vicente Cuaran
Region: Narino
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 6,000 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor
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El Descanso, Huila, Colombia
We first bought coffee from El Descanso, meaning 'Rest, respite,' in the district of Huila during last year's Cup of Excellence auctions. We now have a larger lot of this coffee due to arrive here in Early November.

Jesus Orlando Lopez merged his brother's farm and now owns 8 hectares (20 acres) of farmland at over 5,600 feet. He has been reforesting his land and has applied for the Rainforest certification.

Ripe, elegant and velvety, the cup is medium-bodied, suggesting honeyed citrus, plum, and pomegranate mingling with soft streaks of blackberry, aromatic, ripe pear, wintergreen, vanilla and rounded with chocolate truffle.

Farm: El Descanso
Farmer: Jesus Orlando Lopez
Region: Huila
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 5,600 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.
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Maria Santos' Los Sauces, Cauca, Colombia
Los Sauces is one of those very rare Colombian coffees and has extraordinary, elegant complexity, refined flavor and sweetness.

Maria Santos' coffee is a class above - and shows a Colombian, perhaps an Andean, terroir flavor-profile that is just emerging to more discerning palates in the specialty roasting business.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.

$15.95 per 12-oz


La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia
Roasting Monday, May 5th in our Full Flavor Roast!

The 2007 Cup of Excellence First Prize winner, La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir.

The owner of La Esperanza, Isaias Cantillo Osa, is very modest in speech and presence yet displays a striking determination and independence of mind supported by intuition and real ingenuity when it comes to farm management and quality development. He started as a coffee picker and worked his way over many years toward being able to buy a tiny farm with his savings. He then bought coffee seeds over time from nearby farms accumulating quite a collection of varieties along the way. He resisted "the establishment's" urgings to replant his farm with more productive Arabica cultivars and his farm is now a museum of Arabicas, some rarely seen these days, most of which are low producing but prized for quality.

To read a more detailed description of the farm and coffee, please click here.

Please click here to view more images of this coffee farm.

$31.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Isaias Cantillo Osa
Region: Huila
Altitude: 5,500 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: San Bernardo, Bourbon, Typica, Caturra, V de Colombia
Size of Farm: 6 acres of coffee

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


Marco Aurelio's Villa Flor, Nariņo, Colombia
Roasting Monday, May 19th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Marco Aurelio Ortega is another very small Colombian farmer deeply attached to the earth and its life-forces. We have been announcing his arrival in earlier newsletters. He uses only natural inputs and applies no chemicals to his farm. He grows medicinal and aromatic herbs, fruits and many different trees on his tiny 3 acre farm. He has even contoured his farm on the steep slopes, at 6,000 feet, something I am told again and again in Colombia that small farmers cannot afford - yet he has done it simply because he feels that erosion control is worth the effort. Marco Aurelia will be applying for organic certification, which practices he has long applied out of his own convictions. We are looking into importing his coffee-blossom honey which he currently sells to the local market...

Mr. Ortega produced 6 micro-lots this past summer. They were all exemplary (we picked his coffee out blind again and again). Drinking Villa Flor is like listening to a beautifully tuned stringed instrument. It sings. And then it disappears, like music. It is 100% of the Caturra variety at its best. This variety was created to increase production yet produce high quality; here the Caturra plants' high productivity is held back through the use of shade trees. Ortega's craftsmanship brings out delicate complex flavor notes of great clarity reminiscent of Burgundy's Pinot Noir. Villa Flor is a coffee that combines great delicacy with real spine. The cup has laser-like acidity that is all sweetness and light around a Brazil nut core wafting filigree wintergreen-tinged tropical fruit aromas from hot to cold with wisps of soft persimmons, essence of pomegranate and passion fruit. Villa Flor has a svelte yet sensuous body that derives purely from its oils and a natural sweetness without trace of edginess.

$15.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farm: Farm: Villa Flor
Farmer: Marco Aurelio Ortega
Region: Nariņo
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 6,000 ft.
Vintage: 2007
Rainfall: moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.
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Indonesia
Aged Sumatra Mandheling, Vintage 2002, Indonesia
This very heavy-bodied liqueur-like coffee has been specially selected and then carefully aged for over three years. The raw beans are no longer blue-green but a deep orange-brown color. No coffee ages with the same grace as Sumatra Mandheling and its sweetness is retained over time.

Notes of brandy and tawny port, fresh sweet tobaccos, roots, leather, autumn leaves and butterscotch entwine into a unique coffee experience.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Rated 93 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review. To read the review click here.
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Sumatra, Mandheling, Indonesia
At last another great Sumatra Mandheling has come our way - and we have snatched all there was. The coffee beans were harvested in the region of Lintong from plants of ancient lineage going back to the early Dutch plantings of the early seventeenth century. There is no other Sumatra Mandheling in the US that can hold a candle to ours for craftsmanship, clarity and conviction of expression.

It is easily equal to the Sumatra we had last year at this time: it is wonderfully clean and ripe, full of syrupy-bodied herbal butterscotch flavor.

Rated 94 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review. To read the review click here.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Espresso Roast
Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Style Espresso Roast

This coffee produces massive crema and jumps out with an intense perfume of roasted almonds, followed with a burst of blueberry embedded in dense bitter-sweet chocolate, and ends with a smooth, sweet creamy finish.
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Ethiopia
Konga Cooperative, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia




The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

This coffee is refined and delicate. Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger give Yirgacheffe a unique flavor profile. This particular lot was the best we cupped last year and we made history by have it vacuum sealed and boxed in Ethiopia. The coffee has arrived at our facilities with its special perfume intact and without woodiness, something we have not enjoyed for several years! This Konga, taken black with no milk or sweetener, pairs ecstatically with dark chocolate. Much better than, um...dunking donuts...Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

Harvest: 2006
Altitude: over 6,000 feet
Soil: volcanic
Arabica Variety: Ethiopica


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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Panama
Rwanda
Costa Rica
La Minita Estate (SHB), Tarrazu, Costa Rica
Currently Sold Out!
Check back for information about our new crop!

The 2007 La Minita coffee is a very good year indeed! This is the grand cru estate coffee. In my opinion, the most consistent, perfectly crafted estate coffee in the world, year after year. Full bodied, sparkling acidity, yet so smooth from hot to stone cold. Maple syrup, nuts and hint of peaches.

No pesticides or herbicides are used.
Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

http://www.laminita.com/


Decaf La Lapa (HB), Atlantic Coast, Costa Rica
This is one of the best, most un-decaffeinated tasting coffees I know of. Sweet, ripe, high-grown Atlantic Coast coffee. Smooth yet lively with marked chocolate flavors mixing with nuts. The aftertaste sweetly disappears.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica
Temporarily out of stock. New crop arriving in May!

Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

It is a rare treat to "eat my words", and enjoy the act or should I say drink? That is what a Swiss Water decaffeinated Costa Rican coffee forced me to do when Peter and I tasted it a few weeks ago. The Swiss Water people have truly mastered the method to produce the most outstanding decaf I have ever tasted. We promptly bought the coffee for all our enjoyment. It is hardly believable this coffee is decaffeinated!

The coffee is called La Magnolia, is from the famed Tres Rios growing region of Costa Rica and was collected by the folks at La Minita. Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated (chemical-free)
Altitude: 3,500 - 4,000 feet
Soil: Volcanic
Rainfall: Moderate
Variety: Caturra


Brazil
Daterra Farm Special Reserve, Cerrado, Brazil
New Crop Daterra Special Reserve!

The new crop Daterra Farm Special Reserve is a spectacular improvement over the past. This is still a wonderfully mellow coffee but with far more delicate clean fruit sweetness than in the past, giving a refined Beaujolais-like character to this coffee. It was harvested in late summer of 2007 from deep-rooted, low yield, very carefully hand-harvested Yellow Bourbon variety of Arabica. The owner of Daterra, Luis Pascoal, is a key coffee visionary in the quality coffee movement who never tires of tweaking everything he does one notch up every year for the quality of the coffee and for his social and environmental policies. He has done it again. Big notch, Luis! Daterra is Rainforest Alliance and Utz certified.



Favorite of Food & Wine Magazine, March 2006

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast
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Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso
Light Roasted, elegant, creamed-honey textured, sweet coffee with a fine marzipan-vanilla aroma.

Click here for the full description.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 92 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.

Choice coffee of Troels Poulsen, the World Barista Champion of 2005! Read more here.
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Daterra, South Italian Style Espresso
Now Available- the NEW Daterra Farm 2006 South Italian Espresso Roast Style- WOW!

We have just broken into the 2006 harvested Daterra coffee and it has made our South Italian espresso sing with syrupy body, crisp, intense, refined bittersweet chocolate and layered lush fruit notes. Daterra continues to hone its top coffees and their 2006 offering is really another step up. Bravo! The focused sweetness coming from this medium dark roasted coffee is simply amazing. A great espresso!

Medium roast with a rich layering of bittersweet chocolate and a hint of fine pipe tobacco.

Roast Style: South Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Daterra, Calabria Style Espresso
Roasted darker than our extremely popular Daterra, South Italian Style espresso. As a ristretto, this new roast style produces a rich and velvety crema with a deep reddish-brown color and unfolds into dense marzipan, cherry and caramel brownie on the palate, exhibiting a viscous syrupy body with a lasting sweet finish.
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Opus 1 Low Caffeine, Daterra Farm, Cerrado, Brazil
Daterra Farm low-caffeine Opus 1, another Premiere!

Daterra has spent twelve and a half years developing a low-caffeine hybrid coffee plant; it is naturally bred and has about one third less caffeine than other Arabica varieties (under 1% compared to 1.2 to 1.9%). The coffee is delicate, with clean fresh fruit notes, excellent sweetness and refined aftertaste. The plant has quite low productivity and we have a limited supply.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


Guatemala
El Injerto, Huehuetenango, Guatemala SHB
Huehuetenango is a spectacular region of sharp-toothed mountains and narrow valleys. Warm winds from the hot Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, to the north, flow through narrow north-south valleys, warming the mountainsides and allowing coffee growth at far higher altitudes than would ordinarily be possible.

The cup has dazzling razor-fine acidity with honeyed citrus, red currant and other berry notes and a touch of anise. Full bodied. 100% Bourbon variety.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast

No pesticides, fungicides or herbicides are used.

http://www.fincaelinjerto.com

Rated best Overall by the Wall Street Journal
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Roasters Choice
Roasters Choice
Don't know what to choose? Have our Master Roaster hand-select one of our fantastic coffees for your enjoyment!

We have several different regions and styles available.
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Decaffeinated
Decaf La Lapa (HB), Atlantic Coast, Costa Rica
This is one of the best, most un-decaffeinated tasting coffees I know of. Sweet, ripe, high-grown Atlantic Coast coffee. Smooth yet lively with marked chocolate flavors mixing with nuts. The aftertaste sweetly disappears.

Roast Style: Full Flavor Roast


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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Decaf La Magnolia, Tres Rios, Costa Rica
Temporarily out of stock. New crop arriving in May!

Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

It is a rare treat to "eat my words", and enjoy the act or should I say drink? That is what a Swiss Water decaffeinated Costa Rican coffee forced me to do when Peter and I tasted it a few weeks ago. The Swiss Water people have truly mastered the method to produce the most outstanding decaf I have ever tasted. We promptly bought the coffee for all our enjoyment. It is hardly believable this coffee is decaffeinated!

The coffee is called La Magnolia, is from the famed Tres Rios growing region of Costa Rica and was collected by the folks at La Minita. Full bodied and full flavored, with fine, richly blended nuts, sweet mellow peach and a trace of chocolate.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated (chemical-free)
Altitude: 3,500 - 4,000 feet
Soil: Volcanic
Rainfall: Moderate
Variety: Caturra


Espresso
Daterra, North Italian Style Espresso
Light Roasted, elegant, creamed-honey textured, sweet coffee with a fine marzipan-vanilla aroma.

Click here for the full description.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast

Rated 92 points by Kenneth David's Coffee Review, to read the review click here.

Choice coffee of Troels Poulsen, the World Barista Champion of 2005! Read more here.
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Daterra, South Italian Style Espresso
Now Available- the NEW Daterra Farm 2006 South Italian Espresso Roast Style- WOW!

We have just broken into the 2006 harvested Daterra coffee and it has made our South Italian espresso sing with syrupy body, crisp, intense, refined bittersweet chocolate and layered lush fruit notes. Daterra continues to hone its top coffees and their 2006 offering is really another step up. Bravo! The focused sweetness coming from this medium dark roasted coffee is simply amazing. A great espresso!

Medium roast with a rich layering of bittersweet chocolate and a hint of fine pipe tobacco.

Roast Style: South Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Daterra, Calabria Style Espresso
Roasted darker than our extremely popular Daterra, South Italian Style espresso. As a ristretto, this new roast style produces a rich and velvety crema with a deep reddish-brown color and unfolds into dense marzipan, cherry and caramel brownie on the palate, exhibiting a viscous syrupy body with a lasting sweet finish.
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Konga Cooperative, North Italian Style Espresso
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has traditionally been used as a prized aromatic ingredient in the finest Italian espresso blends. During a lecture to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a number of years ago, the great quality coffee pioneer and scientist Ernesto Illy stated that this coffee shared a certain key aromatic component with Chanel 5 and Darjeeling tea.

Creamy, complex, delicately perfumed candy-lemon and mellow apricot accented with a dash of ginger enfolded within a rich milk-chocolate base. Prolonged sweet aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style
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Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Espresso Roast
Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Style Espresso Roast

This coffee produces massive crema and jumps out with an intense perfume of roasted almonds, followed with a burst of blueberry embedded in dense bitter-sweet chocolate, and ends with a smooth, sweet creamy finish.
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Decaf Espresso (HB), La Lapa, Costa Rica
Sweet, lively espresso with a heart of dark chocolate. Great for a naturally sweet cappuccino or for a cup of darker roasted decaf coffee. Not a trace of harshness or bitter aftertaste.

Roast Style: North Italian Style Espresso Roast
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Matalapa, La Libertad, El Salvador
Matalapa is a fourth generation 190 acre farm at 4,100 feet above sea level. It was founded in the late 1800's by Fidelia Lima, great grandmother of the current owner, Vickie Ann Dalton de Díaz. She maintains 14 acres of virgin tropical forest and keeps her coffee plants shaded with over forty varieties of shades trees.

I have been following this farm for three years now and have been very impressed with each year's improvements since winning in the 2003 El Salvador Cup of Excellence. The 2007 crop is very impressive for its sweetness and buttery body, ideal for espresso and French Press brewing.

100% Bourbon. Layers of refined deep sweet citrus with no edge coated with creamed nutty caramel.

Farm: Matalapa
Farmer: Vickie Ann Dalton de Diaz
Region: La Libertad
Altitude: 4,100 ft
Rainfall: 86 - 98 in. per year
Soil: Clay loam.
Varietal: 100% Bourbon
Vintage: 2007
Roast: Vienna

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Green Coffee
Green Coffee
Want to roast your own coffee? Here is a list of our coffees that are available green.
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Limited Edition
La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia
Roasting Monday, May 5th in our Full Flavor Roast!

The 2007 Cup of Excellence First Prize winner, La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir.

The owner of La Esperanza, Isaias Cantillo Osa, is very modest in speech and presence yet displays a striking determination and independence of mind supported by intuition and real ingenuity when it comes to farm management and quality development. He started as a coffee picker and worked his way over many years toward being able to buy a tiny farm with his savings. He then bought coffee seeds over time from nearby farms accumulating quite a collection of varieties along the way. He resisted "the establishment's" urgings to replant his farm with more productive Arabica cultivars and his farm is now a museum of Arabicas, some rarely seen these days, most of which are low producing but prized for quality.

To read a more detailed description of the farm and coffee, please click here.

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$31.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farmer: Isaias Cantillo Osa
Region: Huila
Altitude: 5,500 ft.
Rainfall: Moderate+
Soil: Franco Arciloso
Arabica variety: San Bernardo, Bourbon, Typica, Caturra, V de Colombia
Size of Farm: 6 acres of coffee

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* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


San Ignacio Farm, Bolivia COE 2007 Award Winner
Roasting Monday, May 12th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Premiere - Bolivia Cup of Excellence 2007 Presidential Award winner (over 90 score), San Ignacio Farm, full flavor roast: Juana Mamami Huanca from the San Ignacio cooperative is a first generation coffee producer. She began producing coffee on her farm at the age of 16 and now at only 23 years of age she has earned second place in the Cup of Excellence in Bolivia. Juana participated in the 2005 competition but did not manage to take home a Cup of Excellence award. For the past two years she has worked to improve quality always with an eye towards competing again.

Her farm covers fifteen acres of lush hillsides in the Carrasco La Reserva region of the Caranavi province at an altitude of approximately 4,900 feet above sea-level. "I always planned to participate [in the competition]" she said, "and now I plan to increase my production and my quality of life." She is now working to establish an additional acre of coffee.

The farm has an abundance of shade trees. Production is carried out without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides but does not have organic certification.

- text from Cup of ExcellenceThe lack of certification is typical for very small farmers: it has been beyond her means. The price we paid should go a long way towards correcting that. Certification takes at least three years to get. The cup is medium bodied with black cherry, caramel and milk chocolate notes. The price is $34.95 per 8 ounces. Click here to order or call 866 GHH-JAVA.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.


Marco Aurelio's Villa Flor, Nariņo, Colombia
Roasting Monday, May 19th in our Full Flavor Roast!

Marco Aurelio Ortega is another very small Colombian farmer deeply attached to the earth and its life-forces. We have been announcing his arrival in earlier newsletters. He uses only natural inputs and applies no chemicals to his farm. He grows medicinal and aromatic herbs, fruits and many different trees on his tiny 3 acre farm. He has even contoured his farm on the steep slopes, at 6,000 feet, something I am told again and again in Colombia that small farmers cannot afford - yet he has done it simply because he feels that erosion control is worth the effort. Marco Aurelia will be applying for organic certification, which practices he has long applied out of his own convictions. We are looking into importing his coffee-blossom honey which he currently sells to the local market...

Mr. Ortega produced 6 micro-lots this past summer. They were all exemplary (we picked his coffee out blind again and again). Drinking Villa Flor is like listening to a beautifully tuned stringed instrument. It sings. And then it disappears, like music. It is 100% of the Caturra variety at its best. This variety was created to increase production yet produce high quality; here the Caturra plants' high productivity is held back through the use of shade trees. Ortega's craftsmanship brings out delicate complex flavor notes of great clarity reminiscent of Burgundy's Pinot Noir. Villa Flor is a coffee that combines great delicacy with real spine. The cup has laser-like acidity that is all sweetness and light around a Brazil nut core wafting filigree wintergreen-tinged tropical fruit aromas from hot to cold with wisps of soft persimmons, essence of pomegranate and passion fruit. Villa Flor has a svelte yet sensuous body that derives purely from its oils and a natural sweetness without trace of edginess.

$15.95 per 8 oz. roasted.
Please order online or call (866) 444-5282
Farm: Farm: Villa Flor
Farmer: Marco Aurelio Ortega
Region: Nariņo
Variety: Caturra
Altitude: 6,000 ft.
Vintage: 2007
Rainfall: moderate+
Roast: Full Flavor

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.
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Opus 1 Low Caffeine, Daterra Farm, Cerrado, Brazil
Daterra Farm low-caffeine Opus 1, another Premiere!

Daterra has spent twelve and a half years developing a low-caffeine hybrid coffee plant; it is naturally bred and has about one third less caffeine than other Arabica varieties (under 1% compared to 1.2 to 1.9%). The coffee is delicate, with clean fresh fruit notes, excellent sweetness and refined aftertaste. The plant has quite low productivity and we have a limited supply.

Check here for our roast schedule of limited edition coffees.

* Note 1 -- orders received will not be shipped until the ROAST DATE indicated per the schedule; and 2 -- orders received that include REGULAR COFFEE items in addition to scheduled Limited Edition coffees will be shipped in separate shipments, when available unless a message in the Notes Box indicates to ship together.